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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Well today's the day that we announce the winners of our World Card Making Day Blog Hop! I hope that you all had as much fun as we did and were inspired by what we had to show you. So I won't keep you all in suspense any longer...since I don't have a fancy machine to do it for me, I assigned a number to every name and my dd picked a winner out of a bowl and the winner of the adorable image I used, Festive Snooze, is PUMPY (PAM)!!! Congratulations Pam...I am so excited for you and I can't wait to see what you do with this sweet little image! Thank you to everyone who joined in on our Blog Hop...it was so wonderful to read all of your comments and have you all become a follower of my blog. For a full list of winners head on over to our Challenge Blog. Hugs ~ Charlene

Wednesday, October 10, 2012

It’s
time for another challenge at Digistamps4Joy…well, actually it’s been on for a
week already and I’m just doing the one week reminder. Last week Team A posted
their lovely creations for our challenge, this week is Team B’s turn. So what
is this challenge you ask? Well this time we would like you to make a tag. That’s
right, we want to see tags. Now this can be a gift tag or a tag on a card, whatever
you choose to make.

So
since Christmas is just around the corner (sorry to remind you, but it’s true),
I decided to do a Christmas tag. I used Digistamps4Joy’s wonderful new image by
Jen Lee, called Vintage Lantern Girl. She was just so much fun to play with.

The
tag is a svg file by Birds Cards that I printed out and cut out by hand. I then
printed out the image on white cs and then paper pieced her outfit. I wish I
could tell you what the papers were, but they were just pieces I had in my
stash. I used my red glitter pen to trace out the pointsettias on her dress and
hat.

I
used my bronze metallic pen for the lamp and my gold glitter pen for the light
in the lamp.

I
then added stickles onto the “fur” part of her outfit and used my Staedtler
pencil crayons and oms to colour her dress, band on her hat her face and hair. I
used my white gel pen to add small white dots to her dress and the band of her
hat. The
Merry Christmas and the holly were part of my stash.

Now
it’s your turn to show us what you got. Just head on over to Digistamps4JoyChallenge blog to check out all the rules and prizes. And while you’re there,
check out what my team mates, from A and B, have done up to inspire you.

Monday, October 8, 2012

Welcome
to our World Card Making Day Blog Hop. You have arrived at Charlene’s Blog in
the Fraser Valley in Beautiful British Columbia, Canada.

To celebrate World
Card Making Day Digistamps4Joy is having a blog hop! And guess
what…Digistamps4Joy is also offering the prizes! And what prizes they are too.
Each DT member has gotten to choose her favorite image from the store to make a
project out of….and that is the prize for her blog. So the image she presents
it the image you have a chance to win! So with 12 stops along the hop, that
gives you 12 chances to win! You might win one image…you might win more as each
prize will be randomly drawn by each blog owner.

If
you landed on my page first, then just carry on down the list, and from the top
again till you are back at my blog OR start at the top at the Digistamps4Joy blog, and work
your way though to the final stop (Ursula’s blog). The hop order is indicated
on each blog, so you will not ‘get lost’!

This is the card that
I am showcasing for the Blog Hop. I used the image Festive
Snooze and you can get it at the store or maybe win it here.

I coloured it with
Staedtler Pencil crayons, oms, and my red and gold glitter pens. I used my
homemade white flower soft for the snow at the bottom of the image. I used my
SU Christmas Wheel (sorry, I don’t remember the exact name of it) and glitter
blue embossing powder to add the flourishes. The frame for the image and
sentiment was made with my Nestibilities Scalloped Oval Dies. In
behind the image I have added more of my heat embossed paper. The base dp is
from Bazzil and the glitter paper was some that I have had in my stash for
years. I also used the glitter paper to punch out the snowflakes. The ornament
is a svg from The Cutting Café. I used my SU ticket corner punch on some of my
corners. The card fold is called a Center Step Card.

Friday, October 5, 2012

If you would like a chance to win this adorable image or some of the 11 others being showcased, go to our blog hop by clicking here

Hello all, it’s
another beautiful day here in the Fraser Valley, the sun is shining and the sky
is blue…hard to believe that it’s fall already. Or that Christmas is around the
corner…brrrrr. And speaking of Christmas, I just have to show you the adorable
image that I just got to play with for our current blog hop at Digistamps4Joy.
The image is called Festive Snooze and let me tell you, this little guy looks
like he has really enjoyed Christmas.

I coloured it with
Staedtler Pencil crayons, oms, and my red and gold glitter pens. I used my
homemade white flower soft for the snow at the bottom of the image. I used my
SU Christmas Wheel (sorry, I don’t remember the exact name of it) and glitter
blue embossing powder to add the flourishes. The frame for the image and
sentiment was made with my Nestibilities Scalloped Oval Dies. The base dp is
from Bazzil and the glitter paper was some that I have had in my stash for
years. I also used the glitter paper to punch out the snowflakes. The ornament
is a svg from The Cutting Café. I used my SU ticket corner punch on some of my
corners. The card fold is called a Center Step Card and you can find it here.

You can find this
adorable image at the Digistamps4Joy store or you can join in on our blog hop
and have a chance of winning it when I do my random draw.

It’s
time for another fabulous challenge at Pattie’s Creations. This time the
challenge is to Make a Tag. That’s right, we want to see your tags. It can be a
tag on a card or an actual tag the choice is yours.

I
coloured them with my Staedtler pencil crayons and oms. I used my bronze
metallic pen for the lamp post and sign and my gold glitter pen for the flames
inside the lamp and sign. I coloured beneath the sign to make it look like a
sidewalk or road and then lightly penciled in my snow hills and the pond in
between them.I made the snow with my
homemade white flower soft (I rubbed 2 styrofoam balls together) and then added
stickles to the branch with my Cardinal for the snow there. I used my SU
Pastels and scalloped punch to give some difference in colour for the sky. The
tag is one that I got as a freebie from Birds Cards. The red ribbon,
the gold Merry Christmas and dp is
from my stash and the cs is by Bazzil.

To
check out all my team mates fabulous creations and to join in on the fun, just
head on over to Pattie’s Creations Challenge Blog. We can’t wait to see what
you create.

Wednesday, October 3, 2012

We’re having a
Blog Hop….that’s right, to celebrate World Card Making Day Digistamps4Joy is
having a blog hop! And guess what…Digistamps4Joy is also offering the prizes!

Have I gotten your interest yet? Oh good, because from October 4-9,
2012, we are going to be hopping and we would sure love all of you to join us.
We’ll be starting at Digistamps4Joy’sChallenge Blog and going from there. We hope to see all of you there.

Monday, October 1, 2012

Hi all, it's time for another Digistamps4Joy Release day. Actually, I'm a day late in getting mine posted. Had my 30th Highschool reunion this weekend and my mil's birthday and it just threw my schedule wonky.

The image that I got to play with this time is a new one from Jen and it is just too cute for words. It's called Patches Little Nap. I used this sketch by Lisa Smith at Willow Sketchie Challenge

I turned it on it's side and instead of a rectangle in the middle I used a square.

I used green cs from Bazzil and two different dp's that were in my stash. They are from my local dollar store and they didn't have a name on them. The sentiment I found on the Anything Goes Challenge site on Paper Craft Planet. I coloure the image with my Staedtler Pencil Crayons, oms and my metallic silver pen. I added a few white highlights in the brown spots on my dog using my white gel pen. The green flat backed pearls are from Recollections

Isn't he just too adorable. You can find him and all of the other new releases on our Challenge Blog.

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About Me

Hello, my name is Charlene. I have been married to my wonderful husband for 26 years and I have 2 children. A boy 25 and a girl 21. I live on the West Coast of British Columbia, Canada...better known as the Wet Coast because of the amount of rain that we get.
I first started crafting when my son was in his second year of Beavers. My husband and I became leaders that year with 2 other wonderful people. I found that I had a nack for finding ways of making crafts for the Beavers to do that were cute but inexpesive. I moved on from Beavers into Guiding and followed my daughter through her 2 years of Sparks and Brownies and her first year of Guides. When she left I continued on for a few years. During this time I found that I loved making things by hand for people...so when I was introduced to making cards 3 years ago, I jumped into it enthusiastically. And I have never regretted it. Making cards has given me a creative outlet that not only lets me express myself, but allows me to give something to my family and friends that is truly unique.